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Excel New Year Resolutions

datapig — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:26:30 +0000

Well folks, it’s officially the year 2012. And even though the Mayans have put a stigma on 2012 with all their “end of the world” mumbo jumbo, I’m very excited about the upcoming year.

This is the time for new-year’s resolutions. I was going to put down “stop procrastinating” on my list, but I never got around to creating it.

If you too have yet to create your list of new-year’s resolution’s, here are a few Excel resolutions you can adopt for 2012.

Stop emailing workbooks called Book1.xls
Stop using Merge and Center
Stop hiding cell content using White font
Start making your workbooks Print-ready, so we don’t print 25 blank pages when we print it
Stop printing Excel eye charts with 8 pitch font

Feel free to add your own. Happy New Year!

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Buying Apps on Your Smart Phone

datapig — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:01:29 +0000

On this Friday, I’d like to share another life lesson from The Oatmeal:

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Happy Thanksgiving 2011

datapig — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:42:16 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Excel Nerds out there.

I hope you all enjoy your time with family and friends.

I’ll return next week with more stuff.

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Take Your Kids to Work Day

datapig — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:53:36 +0000

Can we all admit that Takes Your Kids to Work Day is a joke?

Who is getting any serious work done with little a-holes hanging around?

On my last “take your kids to work day”, my kids asked if they could make paper airplanes and fly them around the office.

Does that sound like I’m getting any real work done?

It should be called let your spouse sleep in day, because that’s the only real benefit of this charade.

I need a workforce reduction.

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Happy Spreadsheet Day

datapig — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:42:33 +0000

It’s October 17^th, which means it’s Spreadsheet Day! Today is the day we all celebrate Excel and take a moment to think about how Excel has made our lives better.

Spreadsheets are used by lots of people in many different ways. The best thing about spreadsheets is that you don’t even have to be smart to use them.

For example, here’s a 10 minute video of some douchebag who loses $500 playing on-line Craps. Even he tracks all his play on……you guessed it……a spreadsheet.

If you have time, watch for the whole 10 minutes. It’s hilarious how he devolves into a steaming pile of shame. He really starts falling apart at about 5 minutes in.

The best part is when he opens the spreadsheet at the end to catalog his losses, then proceeds to let us know that he’s available for Craps coaching.

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